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TAY LOR PATENT OFFICEs BURROWS, OF LONDON, ENGLAND, ASSIGNOR TO THE FLAX COMBING SYNDICATE, LIMITED, OF SAME PLACE.

co'MBlNG- MACHINE.

SPECIFICATION forming part f Letters Pai-.ent No. 633,794, dai-,ea september 2e, 1899.

Application filed December 29, 1897. Serial No. 664,402. (No modem` To all whom t may concern: y

Be it known that I, TAYLOR BURRows, engineer, a subject ofthe Queenrof Great Britain, residing at 8S. Upper Kennington Lane, London, England, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in or Relating to Noble Oombing-Machines or the Like, of which the following is a specification.-

This invention has for its object ixnliirovements in or relating to Noble combing-ma.

Fig. Zis a side view or elevation looking in the direction of the arrow l, Fig. l. Figs. 3 to 6 are detail views of the feeding arrangement, Fig. 3 being a local detail View, on an enlarged scale, showing one arrangement for feeding according to the present invention; Fig. 4, a local plan view of Fig. 3.

Fig. 5 is a sectional view taken on the line 5.5 of Fig. G, and Fig. 6 is a sectional viewtaken on the line 6 6 of Fig. 5.

A bobbin, reel, or spool o (which will hereinafter be referred to as a reel is used, having a spindle or axle passed centrally through I the same, the projecting ends of of which-form the axes on which said reels revolve, as shown in the drawings, or these axes o maybe simply trunnions fixed to the side cheeks of the reel a, or the slivers may be wound onto circular tubes or rods, (Without flanges, if desired.) Four or other suitable number ol" slivers b are Wound parallel onto each said reel and are wadvantageously tightly wound thereon, so as to obtain the double advantage of (first) getting more material on each reel, and (second) it is found that the liber, especially flax or china-grass, kwill thereby run off or unwind very much better when thus tightly Wound. The projecting ends or trunnions a of this reel a, on which the slivers are Wound, rest when Qn the combing-machine in V-shaped or approximately V-shaped bearings or holders c, so that the weight of the reel o: at its full charge being heavy consequently presses the ends a down, so thatgthe latter are wedged between the converging sides of the V-shaped holder or bearing c.

VThese V-shaped bearings c maybe mounted'on short stays or supports o', bolted, screwed, or otherwise suitably tiXed to and carried on or by the circular revolving frame d of the Noble or the like combing -machine and arey carried around therewith, This arrangement of V- shaped bearings carried in fixed supports on the revolving part of the machine is shown in detail in Figs. 3 and 4:, and in this case the feedplate e is carried on av bracket e', pivcted at d to the aforesaid revolving frame d. This pivoted bracket e has an extension e2, which comes to rest against the under side of the revolving frame d, and thereby prevents the bracket e' from turning outward on the pivot d beyond the position shown iu Fig. 8. This bracket e' also carries another arm proj ectin g downward below the pi vot d, and as thi's'down- Ward'ly-projecting arm e3 is carried around with therevolving frame d such arm e3 rides against a fixed earn-like surface eX, rigidlyl mounted on a fixed part of the framing of the machine in the path of travel of said arm e3. Oonsequentlysaid arm e3 is forced by the cam e* from the position shown in full lines in Fig. 8 into the position shown in dotted lines, and thus the feed-plate e is raised anddraws a certain amount of sliver b oit the reel o, and then the arm e3 passes clear of the iXed'carn-like surface eX'and-th'e feed-plate drops back, `and thus leaves a small amount the feeding operation to readily take place, or said V-shaped bearings c may be carried .of slack in the sliver b," which thus permits y on rocking rsupports-for instance, a forked f deviceconsisting .of the forked arms j" f',

pivoted atj:z f2 in supports f3, fixed to the re-v volving frame d, the forked arms f f converging and terminating in the single arm or lever j', whiohlatter, extending inwardly, (La, toward the center of the machina) rides under an inclined plane or device fx, fixed (to some stationary part of the n1achine)'in the path of travel of said arm or lever j'. Thus as each lever fin its path of travel rides unespA IOO

der the inclined plane fX thereby each said lever f is depressed, and consequently the forked ends f thereof are raised, and thereby the reel ct in the bearings c is lifted bodily just before the feed takes place, as shown in Fig. 2, and thus the sliver between the ball and thefeed-boxes x is thrown slack, as shown in dotted lines in Fig. 5, and the reel ct is maintained in this raised position until after the feed has taken place, and then the lever f passes clear of the xed inclined plane or device fx, whereupon the forked ends f and the reel a supported therein are lowered, and consequently the amount of the sliver b absorbed in the last feed is now unrolled off said reel a, and then the latter comes to rest again in its V-shaped bearings c, which bearings prevent any excess of unwinding taking place, and consequently maintain the slivers in a taut condition. Thus in a circular combing-machine of the character illustrated in Fig. l, Where the material is fed twice in the course of each revolution, consequently the reels a are each raised and lowered twice in the course of each revolution of the machin-e.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent of the United States, is-

l. In a combing-machine the combination of afeed-plate, a spool or reel, V-shaped bearings for said reel and means for periodically varying the distance between said plate and reel, substantially as described.

2. In a combing-machine, the combination of a spool or reel, V-shaped bearings for said reel and means for periodically raising and lowering said bearings and reel substantially as described.

3. In a combing-machine, the combination of the frame of the machine provided with one or more earn-surfaces, a revoluble plate above said frame, a lever supported by said plate, V-shaped bearings carried by said lever and a spool or reel mounted in said bearings substantially as described.

4. In a combing-maching, the combination of the frame of the machine provided with one or more cam-surfaces, a revoluble plate, a bracket mounted on said plate, a forked lever pivotally mounted on said bracket, V- shaped bearings carried by said lever and a spool or reel, substantially as described.

5. Ina combing-machine, the combination of the frame of the machine provided with one or more cam-surfaces, a revoluble plate, a perforated feed-plate carried thereby, a bracket depending from said revoluble plate, a forked lever pivoted on said bracket, V-shaped bearings carried by said forked lever and a spool or reel mounted in said bearings, substan tially as described. A

TAYLOR BURROWS.

Vitnesses:

ALFRED NUTTING, F. JAMES HOLE. 

